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Positive Reframing Worksheet

The document provides guidance on positive reframing through a worksheet. It involves identifying negative thinking patterns and automatic thoughts. The process then guides reframing negative thoughts by understanding cognitive distortions, identifying irrational thoughts, and how thoughts affect actions. Questions are provided to help challenge negative thoughts and replace them with positive alternatives. The goal is to exchange negative thoughts that lead to anxiety and sadness with positive thoughts that provide peace and optimism.

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Positive Reframing Worksheet

The document provides guidance on positive reframing through a worksheet. It involves identifying negative thinking patterns and automatic thoughts. The process then guides reframing negative thoughts by understanding cognitive distortions, identifying irrational thoughts, and how thoughts affect actions. Questions are provided to help challenge negative thoughts and replace them with positive alternatives. The goal is to exchange negative thoughts that lead to anxiety and sadness with positive thoughts that provide peace and optimism.

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Positive reframing worksheet

Identification is the first step: First of all, record your negative thinking pattern
by using the thought record

Record the Dysfunctional Automatic Thoughts that come up. Write about the Situation.
Describe the occasion in detail that gave rise to the dysfunctional thought

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Understand how the process works:

REFRAME the thought:


Use the below-mentioned steps to restructure your negative thought pattern.

1. Identification of Irrational Thought


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2. Understanding of Restructuring
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3. How it affects your Actions
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4. Identification of cognitive distortion
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5. Target it and use any of the above-mentioned technique
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6. Alternative thought.
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Answer each of the following questions to REFRAME your negative thoughts
into positive thoughts.

Identifying the negative thoughts

● Can you remember a situation that triggered your unpleasant thoughts today?
● What did you feel during the situation?
● What was your response to the situation?
● What thoughts came into your mind after that situation was finished?
● What did you think about your behavior in the situation?
● What did you feel about yourself after the situation?

Challenging the negative thoughts

● Are these thoughts benefiting you? Or are they just leading towards anxiety and
sadness?
● How can you say that the thoughts you are having are realistic?
● Would your close friend or anyone you admire be having these same thoughts?
● Can you think of any positive thoughts about this situation?
● What would your close friend advise you in this situation?
● Would these thoughts be important after some time? Like after a day?
● Are these thoughts logical?

Changing the negative thoughts

● Think about how these negative thoughts are leading towards negative consequences
on your personal and professional life?
● Why keep thinking negatively when it's having bad effects on your life?
● Think about the positive thoughts rather than these negative ones
● Whenever you are having these negative thoughts, just keep reminding yourself about
the positive thoughts that you can come up with
● Don't give room to these negative thoughts, just keep talking positively to yourself
● Just keep reminding yourself that these negative thoughts are not helping you
● Always stay optimistic in every situation
● Remind yourself that you can cope up with daily life stressors by thinking positively
● By exchanging the negative thoughts with the positive ones, you will have peace and
optimism in your life

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